All Blog Posts

• Using AI Advisory Teams: Expert Knowledge On Demand
  October 14, 2025
• The Mysterious Architecture of Memory: Why Your Brain Stores Curdled Milk Stories
  October 6, 2025
• The Science of Better Sleep: How Small Changes Transformed My Brain Health at 60
  September 29, 2025
• Prediction Machines: Why We Might Be More Like AI Than We Think
  September 27, 2025
• The Attention Apocalypse: How Shallow News Consumption is Fracturing Our Democracy
  September 20, 2025
• The Sacred Voices We Almost Lost: Remembering the Women Erased from Holy Texts
  September 1, 2025
• A Real Test of AI: ChatGPT vs Perplexity vs Claude in an NFL Football Pool
  August 31, 2025
• When Enemies Became Librarians: How Opposing Faiths Saved Each Other's Sacred Texts
  August 25, 2025
• The Digital Dark Age: Why Electronic Records Could Leave Future Archaeologists Empty-Handed
  August 18, 2025
• Uncovering the Hidden Human Stories Behind the World's Sacred Texts
  August 12, 2025
• Behind the Sacred Editors: How I Used AI to Synthesize Decades of Sacred Text Research
  August 11, 2025
• The Rise and Fall of American Apparel: What Netflix's New Documentary Reveals About Leadership, Culture, and Manufacturing
  July 2, 2025
• Quantum Consciousness: Are Our Minds Connected by Spooky Physics?
  June 30, 2025
• When a Form Reset Reveals a Deeper Problem
  June 26, 2025
• How I Use AI: A Tour of My Digital Assistant Projects
  June 20, 2025
• Free Will in the Age of AI: Predictive Algorithms, Human Agency, and the Search for Autonomy
  June 16, 2025
• The AI Bubble: Hype, Reality, and the Path Forward
  June 11, 2025
• On Retiring, Rebooting, and Rediscovering Curiosity
  June 10, 2025
• Our Perfect Greek Island Hopping Adventure: Santorini, Paros, Mykonos & Athens
  May 1, 2025
• Vietnam Unveiled: A Perfect South-to-North Journey Through History and Culture
  March 1, 2025
• Buenos Aires Revisited: A Week of Relaxation, Culture, and Culinary Delights
  January 15, 2025
• Why I'm Spending a Year with the Beatitudes
  January 7, 2025
• Thanksgiving in Paradise: A Week at Turtle Inn, Belize
  December 1, 2024
• A Lack of Respect for People on the Balance Sheet
  June 14, 2024
• The Power and Risk of Rituals
  May 6, 2024
• Kyoto in Winter: A Perfect Week of Temples, Culture, and Culinary Art
  January 2, 2024
• Christmas in Mexico City: A Cultural and Culinary Adventure
  August 26, 2023
• Three Mediterranean Islands, One Epic Journey: Sicily, Sardinia & Corsica
  July 1, 2023
• The Pearls and Turds of Continuous Improvement
  March 3, 2023
• RIP Steve Player, Budget Destroyer
  November 24, 2022
• The Good Karma of Lean
  October 25, 2022
• Lean, Chess, and Techno-Solutionism
  October 5, 2022
• Spanish Summer Circuit: From Andalusian Culture to Balearic Beaches
  July 25, 2022
• Leverage the Power of Safety to Drive Cultural Transformation
  February 11, 2022
• Continuously Lubricating Processes
  January 14, 2022
• Thinking Beyond the Brain
  November 22, 2021
• The Value of Friction and Inefficiency
  September 10, 2021
• Canadian Rockies Adventure: Banff and Jasper in Post-COVID Solitude
  August 26, 2021
• A Nearly Perfect Iceland Ring Road Itinerary
  July 11, 2021
• Reconstructing Degraded Processes and a Yearning for Darkness
  July 9, 2021
• On Learning, Listening, and Wisdom
  May 14, 2021
• Uncovering New Perspectives
  April 9, 2021
• Neuroscience Reframes Aging
  March 12, 2021
• Humble Questions Before Setting Direction
  February 17, 2021
• Norman Bodek and Respect for People
  December 12, 2020
• Time to Stop
  October 13, 2020
• The Stabilizing Foundation of Values
  September 13, 2020
• Leveraging the Solitude of Leadership
  August 18, 2020
• When Customer-Supplier Partnerships... Aren't
  July 16, 2020
• Southwest Solitude: A COVID-Era Road Trip Through America's Sacred Landscapes
  June 26, 2020
• Metrics from the Perspective of the Customer
  May 8, 2020
• Restart to a Future State, Not the Previous State
  April 15, 2020
• Deepening the Lessons of Crisis
  March 15, 2020
• Leverage Learning Environments to Create Customer Value
  February 18, 2020
• Refining and Reinforcing Principles
  January 17, 2020
• Empirical Evidence for the Power of Kata
  December 17, 2019
• Question Yourself
  November 9, 2019
• Take the Time to Get the Full Story
  November 6, 2019
• The Wisdom of Humility
  October 30, 2019
• Oh, The Mistakes I've Made
  September 14, 2019
• The Divergent Paths of Old Lean Dudes
  August 10, 2019
• More Ways to Dig Deeper Using Five Questions
  July 13, 2019
• Creating Range Through Exploration
  June 8, 2019
• The Problem of Profit as a Purpose
  May 11, 2019
• Harnessing Deliberate Reflection to Create Personal Improvement
  April 15, 2019
• The Limits of Learning From Failure
  March 7, 2019
• Teaching Thinking
  February 9, 2019
• Herb Kelleher: Creating Economic Value Based on Human Values
  January 16, 2019
• Avoid the Arbitrary Constraints of Time
  December 7, 2018
• Looking Forward With Alfred Adler
  November 15, 2018
• Treating Lean Psychosis
  October 19, 2018
• Midnight at the Gemba
  September 28, 2018
• When Noise Masks the Problem
  August 12, 2018
• Shoulder Surgery for Rotator Cuff Tear and Calcific Tendonitis - My Story
  August 12, 2018
• Thinking About Thinking
  July 12, 2018
• Going to the Gemba with Anthony Bourdain
  June 26, 2018
• Using Solitude and Silence to Enable Reflection
  June 4, 2018
• Learn by Preparing to Teach
  May 18, 2018
• The Importance of Respect for People in Problem-Solving
  April 18, 2018
• Australia Discovery: From Tasmania's Wilderness to the Great Ocean Road
  March 26, 2018
• The Critical Thinking Value of Writing
  February 18, 2018
• Lessons from Perfecting the Pour Over
  January 18, 2018
• Preparing for Reflection
  December 9, 2017
• The Multi-Faceted Power of Walking
  November 11, 2017
• From Linear to Roundabout Thinking
  October 14, 2017
• Monuments to the Lean Journey
  September 2, 2017
• Walking (and Swimming, Biking, Running) the Talk
  August 12, 2017
• The Simple Leader: Communication, Not Structure
  July 30, 2017
• The Simple Leader: Confront Mortality
  July 27, 2017
• The Simple Leader: Break the Routine
  July 24, 2017
• The Simple Leader: Zen and Business
  July 21, 2017
• The Simple Leader: Map the Value Stream
  July 18, 2017
• Combating Shallow Information with Page-Turning Statistics
  July 15, 2017
• The Simple Leader: Go Visual
  July 15, 2017
• The Simple Leader: Create the Hoshin Plan
  July 12, 2017
• The Simple Leader: Authentic Character
  July 9, 2017
• The Simple Leader: Kanban Work
  July 6, 2017
• The Simple Leader: Embrace Solitude
  July 3, 2017
• The Simple Leader: Standard Work
  June 30, 2017
• The Simple Leader: Core Concepts of Zen
  June 27, 2017